31.   Traders said mild weather helped reduce demand last week, allowing gas companies to put more in storage.

32.   Weather has helped, too, with thunderstorms less a factor.

33.   Weather helped a little in November, as cold weather early in the month got consumers to buy coats, boots and sweaters.

34.   Western Resources and PacifiCorp say warm spring weather helped raise second-quarter earnings.

35.   Adm. Leighton Smith, commander of the NATO operation suggested the bad weather actually helped with securely deploying troops.

36.   Aid organizations said the clear weekend weather helped them make up for time lost during three preceding days of heavy rains.

37.   But spokesman Bob Thomas said Tuesday that dry weather had helped the flames whip out of control and advance to within about a mile of Dubreuilville.

38.   Camenzind said the weather helped him.

39.   Cooler weather helped the state avoid blackouts Thursday.

40.   Economists believe that better-than-normal weather helped boost construction spending in both January and February.